George H.W. Bush Hospitalized for Blood Infection

Former president responding to treatment in a Houston hospital

A day after burying his wife, Barbara, President George H.W. Bush was hospitalized in Houston on Sunday morning with a blood infection, according to a Bush family spokesman.

Mr. Bush, 93, was responding to treatment at Houston Methodist Hospital and “appears to be recovering,” family spokesman Jim McGrath said.

Barbara Bush was laid to rest...

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